Roger Millions was biting his tongue on firing day as well when it came to Weisbrod. Would love to pick his brain away from tv cameras and message boards.
According to Pierre Maguire in an interview on Team 1040 last year, Feaster and Weisbrod are not liked in the hockey community because they think they are smarter than everyone because of their ivy league and legal backgrounds.
That's pretty ironic coming from McGuire.
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No kidding. Maguire is a big mouth fanboy. I think they should hire him. Wise broad would be ok too. I think he hid under his desk when Burke came to town.
Seriously though where is this coming from? The Benning press conference made no mention of changing any of the staff, and confirmed that they wanted to keep working with their current two AGM (lots of "everyone here has a unique skillset, we'll work together as a team, etc etc" stuff). If anything, there was a bit of waffling on job security of the scouting staff. Nothing about one of the AGM's being on his way out at all.
Seriously though where is this coming from? The Benning press conference made no mention of changing any of the staff, and confirmed that they wanted to keep working with their current two AGM (lots of "everyone here has a unique skillset, we'll work together as a team, etc etc" stuff). If anything, there was a bit of waffling on job security of the scouting staff. Nothing about one of the AGM's being on his way out at all.
This seems like a made-up rumour.
When asked about the place of Gilman and other staff, Linden completely side stepped the question. I expect changes to be made with that kind of response.
Lorne Henning might be gone. They are going to keep Gilman. I doubt it's Weisbrod who comes in.
Every GM needs his own right hand man. Gilman is a respected capologist so he would certainly be kept over Henning. Not sure what Henning brings besides having Cup rings and coaching experience. Maybe he will join the Oilers.
I think Weisbrod would be a quality addition to any NHL team's scouting or management staff. Some people talk about Benning and Weisbrod as if they were nobodies who happened to work for a successful organization. Meanwhile, these two men have held top positions for successful clubs and are considered respected men in hockey.
I've said it many times in Feaster threads that Feaster not being a good talent evaluator is a problem. He's the boss, yet he has no way to cross-check the work of his advisors. All along it just seems that whatever Weisbrod said pretty much goes for Feaster. On other teams this won't be a problem. You want a guy who is going to be out there scouting games and coming back and who will come back and not be afraid to speak his mind. With Feaster it's like you like him that much John? Okay we will go get him. With others it will be like you like him that much John? Okay I will make a trip down to see him.
Source? Or since you may be close to the team have you heard that?
I'm pulling for Weisbrod.
Just pure speculation, from a lot of folks who tend to be pretty good at knowing the ebb and flow of the organization. Gilman makes sense to keep until another team offers him the big chair. Henning just never did much in my mind, so he makes sense.
After the MG firing, a guy like Weisbrod doesn't really seem like a good fit. The team is trying to get rid of the smarmy image, not reinforce it.
I used to live in close proximity to a former NHL GM (the mods know who) and he told me that he called Chiarelli after Feaster hired Weisbrod and Chiarelli told this individual that Wesbrod scouted about 10 games for the Bruins and was nothing more than a big talker, and Chiarelli was happy to see John leave Boston. He said, the Bruins staff called him "Weisfraud".
He also had said Feaster went behind Dudley's back in Tampa and went straight to ownership and was telling ownership in Tampa that he is much better than Dudley and basically talked ownership into firing Dudley and hiring him.
Feaster was hired here in July of 2010. Darryl Sutter was fired in December of 2010. I wonder if history repeated itself.
I don't think either of these guys are well liked. I think that McGuire interview on 1040 is pretty accurate.
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I used to live in close proximity to a former NHL GM (the mods know who) and he told me that he called Chiarelli after Feaster hired Weisbrod and Chiarelli told this individual that Wesbrod scouted about 10 games for the Bruins and was nothing more than a big talker, and Chiarelli was happy to see John leave Boston. He said, the Bruins staff called him "Weisfraud".
He also had said Feaster went behind Dudley's back in Tampa and went straight to ownership and was telling ownership in Tampa that he is much better than Dudley and basically talked ownership into firing Dudley and hiring him.
Feaster was hired here in July of 2010. Darryl Sutter was fired in December of 2010. I wonder if history repeated itself.
I don't think either of these guys are well liked. I think that McGuire interview on 1040 is pretty accurate.
Well if what you're saying is true, then there's no way Benning is hiring Weisbrod since Benning would also know him as "Weisfraud?" What doesn't make sense is that Weisbrod was hired after Chiarelli was hired and he was promoted under his watch. I suppose if this story is true the hiring and promotion was all Neely?
As for Feaster, he clearly wanted the GM job and didn't respect Dudley all that much.
I used to live in close proximity to a former NHL GM (the mods know who) and he told me that he called Chiarelli after Feaster hired Weisbrod and Chiarelli told this individual that Wesbrod scouted about 10 games for the Bruins and was nothing more than a big talker, and Chiarelli was happy to see John leave Boston. He said, the Bruins staff called him "Weisfraud".
He also had said Feaster went behind Dudley's back in Tampa and went straight to ownership and was telling ownership in Tampa that he is much better than Dudley and basically talked ownership into firing Dudley and hiring him.
Feaster was hired here in July of 2010. Darryl Sutter was fired in December of 2010. I wonder if history repeated itself.
I don't think either of these guys are well liked. I think that McGuire interview on 1040 is pretty accurate.
I presume you mean" he scouted 10 NHL games" with Boston. He was in charge of scouting college ranks and have to think he saw more than 10 games.
Didn't someone post that under his tender as college scout , Boston didn't pick one college player or maybe it was one college player picked?
